God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
SIMONE WEILTo die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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